It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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And no matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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